Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-06-17
MINI ESOTA NEWS JEWS

!! ~ ihCn2 Speci2t: aOne Geellfing OF Attain
! ta, La, is under arrest on suspicion Of
Ihavlng stolen $500 from his roommate at
the Milwaukee house a few weeks ago. In
| ms trunk were found several suits Of
I rtothes. though. o be DISCUSSES, also hair,
!alse whiskers, dark lantern, etc. n I'll
/ iou'ty-four car loads OF sugar and syr-
| up :isrivat IN st. Paul, over the Manitoba,
/ coming !r,m San Francisco via the Cana
DIAN PHcit;c. The shipment consists oil
1920 barrels and 1900 sacks OF sugar
and oa5 barrels Of syrup. r. .
Mr. Franklin Cook, an carly resident OF
Minn"apniiS, died recently at his home.
H.: has bsef! navy contractor and bridge
! builder, and under Gen. Warren had
char-e OF the improvements OF the Missis-
| siuNi r*rr between the two cities, and
| personally suEerntended the construction
| OF the apron OF the Fails Of St. Anthony.
| application was made to Gov. McGill by
| the governor Of Nebraska Tor a requisition
! for j. J. Hartgan of Tracey this state.
! TIE ground for the request are that Har.
| ticsn mas been guilty OF conspiracy grow I
Ing out OF the organization and subsequent
transactions OF q bank at Tracey. The
reQuisition was denied on the ground that
Hartiyan had never been in Nebraska.
GOV. McGill has received information
! from Norman J. Colman, commissioner Of
! agriculture, that pleuro- pneumonia exists
III the following counties in the various
states named: New Observation-Disclosures
Richmond, Kings, Queens, Suffolk and New
York; Maryland-Howard Baltimore,
Carroll and Prince George; Illinois-Cook
| nouncement is dated May "a.
The Minnesota Historical society is the
fortunate recipient Of spIcrdidly painted
| Oil portraits OF two OF tie best known
| pioneers OF the state-Norman w. Kittson
and Henry II. Sibley. They are the gift OF
jaime Hill who had them expressly execut-
ell by Mr.. Blight, one OF the most talented
! portrait painters who ever visited this
locality.
Mr.. Cakes, for the Northern Pacific.
| maintains that the state railroad COM
| mlss'oners have n jurisdiction in a. mat
ter OF tariff Oh ties.
j. NJ. Mayiell, in Minneapolis shoots
and perhaps fatally wounds c. C. Wins!ow.
| a sewing machine agent.
The June term OF the United States dis,
trict court is adjourned by Judge Nelson
OF Nlnona, because no funds are available
At Herman. John T. Lnfest, cook for the
Western Mon tele2ra ph gang on the Aber,
deem extension of the ST. Faul, Minnea polls
! Il Manitoba railroad, was found dead. A
post morte,n found that dea tn was caused
by a fall, causing conclusion OF the brain.
The deceased was u nember OF st. Johns
lodge. 4. +. d NJ, saltwater also OF G. A.
r. post No. ~, Minneapolis.
At Ancka, a son OF j. W. Hill, aged ~
years, was drowned in the Ruin river while
bathing. Mr.. Hill lost two daughters
Will 4. the past five weeks from measles,
and within the past three years has lost
his wife and children, three small children
only remaining ont of a family OF eight.
At the special election at Browns Valley
~ Nnfa + ha f>f ic- <2,
to aid in building the canal between TRAY
! ersc and Big Stone lakes, the proposition
was carried with but one dissenting vote.
The bonds voted are $50, 600.
T. f. Jacobson, twenty one years old, in
the employ Of the North Minneapolis plan
ing mill, while in bathing among the logs
in the pond between the falls and Union
depot was drowned.
Some OF the carpenters Of St. Paul are
on a strike for nine hours day.
Robert E. Gleason, foreman OF the Turn
bull saw mill at Oak Park, ne,nr Saltwater
was instantly killed. He slipped and fell,
! and was caught between belt and bull.
ley and carried around the latter until
crushed to death, His body was very
| badly mangled. The deceased was forty
| five years OF oge. a native OF New York.
| John Crett, young Pole, was brought
| down from Albany, on the Manitoba road,
! in St. Cloud, and lodged in Jail accused OF
outraging Anna. the fourteen year old
daughter OF Joseph Zimmerman who lives
| near there. He narrowly escaped lynching.
The railroad commissioners have return.
ed from an extended trip in the northern
| part Of the state. They report a strong
sentiment in opposition of the long and
short haul clause in either the state or in.
terstate laws At all points where the mat
ter was considered.
The divorce suit commenced in the dis
trict court at Minneapolis by Emma As
trope against Thomas Astrope Is some.
thing Of novelty in divorce LITIGATION
The plaintiff is about sixty years old, and
the defendant eighty They were ma rr:ec
in Oshkosh IN 1917 and lived tosethe. un,
til 1878. when, Us the plaintiff alleges, by
reason OF his cruel treatment toward her
she was compelled to leave him to ga ve he7
life.
The G. A. r. encampment at Albert
Lee was fine affair and largely ate uded.
kaufman & Pcarlman, pawnbrokers anG
tlot'hers OF MankatO, were closed up un,
der an attach lnent suit instituted by
Strauss d Co. OF Chicago, and an assign,
| ment was made to w. G. Hoerr
Christopher Craft, well to- 10 Swede Of
Prior, Was drowned in Big Stone lake
| while fishing from a leaky boat which
sank with him.
Lannie Nc Alec, tho we'll known billiard
expert Of Minneapolis falls from u front
thir,,-at.,ry window in Il deerium and sus
taineu fatal injuries.
In The district court at Mankato the case
OF John c. Porter against II. i. Salesbur,
AID Cornelius Wampler, returned a YER
dict for Defendants. The action WAS 70,
SIS, 900 damages for personal injuries sus
tanned while at work en- the New Yin
school house in 1884, through scaffoldin,
giving away. The defendants were the con
tractors.
A SOLITARY" building for insane and I'm,
ruly convicts is to be erected at Saltwater
The final arrangements for the Catholii
Total Abstinence convention at st. Pau
have been completed. The clergy OF tn.
diocese, officers and ex-officers Of the Cru
saders Union and presidents of various so
cieties will be invited to be present at tn.
mass meeting to be held on the evening ~
June Is. Large delegations from variou.
nelghborlng cities are expected to be pres,
ent
The secretary OF the treasury has author.
lied the employment OF six nurses to A.
Tend the sick in the barracks hospital, Kew
West, Fla, and Tour guards to protect thu
property OF persons removed to the hos
pital
At Philadelphia, Robert G. Hail, aged
thirty-four years, shot and killed Mrs. lii
liam Rivers, aged thirty years, on North
Tenth street, where the couple were livint
as man and wife under the kame OF Bur
ton: Mrs. Rivers was the vile of James
w. Rivers, an actor known to the profess
ion as James Reynolds. policeman on
going to the room found Mrs. Rivers dead.
With two bullet holes in her head and heI
throat cut. Hall was lying on the floor
unconscious, he having cut his throat with
razor. In the room was also found
marriage contract signed Robert G. Bur